The Majazz Project is an archival platform and record label focused on reissuing Palestinian cassette and vinyl albums and field recordings, with a particular focus on sounds from the 1960s-1990s. Founded by Mo’min Swaitat, a London-based Palestinian actor, playwright, archivist, and filmmaker, the Majazz Project seeks to apply archival practice as a decolonial methodology and

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.  Kimberly Villafuerta Barzola grew up in Salem, Massachusetts, and has spent most of her life in and around Boston. She graduated from Boston University with a self-designed major in Agrarian Studies, combining her interests in history, environmental justice, and rural farmworker community organizing. Currently, Kim works

  Palm trees, mountains, watersprings, stars, and Panamanian orchids adorn Lina Barkawi’s handmade wedding dress. But Lina’s dress was an act of more than mere craftsmanship — in creating her thobe, Lina contributed to the centuries-old tradition of Palestinian embroidery known as tatreez. Passed down orally from generation to generation, tatreez patterns hold great symbolic